It was never a strong combat game imo. It's a fantastic game despite the combat, not because of the combat.

Wrong - https://knowyourmeme.com/news/the-hawk-tuah-girl-getting-fired-from-her-preschool-teaching-job-is-a-rumor-thats-spreading-online

Wow, this article is just like 100% wrong. I'm surprised no one has mentioned this yet.

To get why this could be a problem for YouTube Vanced’s successors, we need to understand how they work. Rather than modding the YouTube app itself, Vanced apps are essentially tweaked and modded browsers that display videos via a WebView that shows YouTube, adding extra features to the experience like adblock and other YouTube Premium perks. If YouTube was able to check which apps or devices are trying to access its servers before displaying content, this would be an easy route to stop Vanced successors from working.

The YouTube-app, and Revanced in turn, does not utilize a WebView to display video. They are most certainly not 'modded browsers'.

Seriously, who wrote this shit? An AI? It's baffling.

It's a tool like any other, appropriate under some circumstances and inappropriate in others.

Blindly rejecting it without considering whether it's appropriate in the context is honestly just as bad as choosing it without considering whether it's appropriate in the context, fwiw.

Never trust anything the Cato Institute says, as a rule. It's almost certainly garbage.

Among the ways you can do layoffs, this is one of the better ones for sure. People who are kind of checked out already anyway can get a nice paycheck on their way out and start looking for something new, while people who still have something important to get out of the job get the option to stay.

Consent matters!

Having an asterisk both be the type indicator and the dereference operator is one of the great programming language design blunders of our time, along with allowing nulls for any type in so many languages.

Is this a new copypasta?

Maybe push for a local rule against short-term rentals? That would treat the actual problem you mention having - lack of access to property being taken up by short term rental owners. If successful, you might even see a lot of people selling off their former short term rentals, increasing the supply and helping your issue further.

They literally can't sell cars any more in Sweden, on account of the postal service having a sympathy strike and no longer delivering registration plates to them. Using the postal service is the only legal means of obtaining registration plates, and without them it's not permitted to sell a car.

So either they rethink or they leave the Swedish market entirely.

Billionaires like to talk a lot about different kinds of ideologies, but at the end of the day, they all have the same ideology - Money. Put them in a situation where they clearly are going to make less without signing, and the signature will all of a sudden not be an impossibility any more.

City, no doubt in my mind.

Being able to walk, bike and take transit instead of having to own a car is important for me. I'm not interested in the additional maintenance involved with owning a house, an apartment suits me a lot better. I also like having good access to plenty of things to do in the form of a great selection of restaurants and being close to international transportation options. Good access to nature without having to drive a car is also important to me.

I seriously doubt this is the case, mostly because it doesn't actually pencil out money-wise.

More likely, it's a stealthy way to be able to lay people off without calling it a layoff.

Also, in-office employees are easier to control and monitor for bad managers.

You could just do what other parts of the world do and prohibit firing without cause, and introduce some rules for how businesses are allowed to lay off when the need to reduce headcount arises. Last-in/first-out could be one such rule - it's what we have in Sweden.

The Venn-diagram of lazy people and efficient people is not a circle, my friend. There is some overlap, but not entirely overlapping.

Which brand/model are you using?

Aftershokz Aeropex

How's the sound quality?

Not great, but they are not headphones I use for audiophile-purposes

How's the sound leak?

No idea tbh - a bit more than in-ears/over-ears I guess?

What kind of music do you use it to listen to?

Hardly any. If I want music, I have other hardware for that. My primary use for these headphones is to listen to podcasts while exercising

Are they comfortable to wear? For how long?

You don't really notice them. I use them for hours on end for long cycling trips and they work well for that

Do you get any skin irritation or even breakdown where it contacts your temple?

I have not noticed any

Does the hook part wrap around your ears without any pressure points?

Yes

Does the behind-the-head band bounce around when you're walking or running?

Not noticably

How much space is between the band and the back of your head/neck?

A few centimeters, less than five.

How's the battery life?

A full charge maybe gets you 8 hours I think? I never let my devices go that low, though

How long have you had it?

2 years

When do you use it?

While exercising to listen to podcasts

Do they stay put, or do you need to reposition them frequently?

They stay where they are. It can be annoying to put on/take off shirts though as they can easily get stuck in them

Anything else to comment on?

I really enjoy my headphones, but they are most certainly not good for music imo. Still, it makes my rotation, which is mostly these plus a pair of buds that go in my pocket for all other listening purposes

It's been time to switch to induction stoves for a long time now, they are basically better in every way that matters.

While I agree that our windows are generally superior from a functional perspective, the Americans have us beat in the fact that you can't install a window AC unit in our windows.

Hence we get to just die in the increasingly common heat waves. Not great - we've got to figure this one out.

Before portable ACs are mentioned - I'll point out that they have terrible efficiency, and connecting the tube to blow out the hot air is still terrible with European windows.

Ten whole percent of global revenues in fines. Let's go

Is this overfitting?

I'm normally against body shaming, but I make an exception against people who have malfunctioning internal compasses.

In effect, yes. Given that ~70% of revenue goes to rights holders, making the amount of revenue bigger by not paying 30% of subscriptions to Google, the savings are passed on to rights holders.

Don't take your eyes off the fact that her party introduced this pile of garbage, and that the people who pushed for it then left politics to get rich off of the system they designed.

Bring back medieval punishments and apply them to these corrupt bastards, please.

Growing up, there was an association in my area for common ownership of different types of machinery and other equipment for its members. You paid something like $10 a year, and for that you got to borrow all kinds of things you might need as a home owner, like a wood chopper/splitter, high pressure washer, trailers, leaf blowers, cement mixer, scaffolding etc.

I always thought that was brilliant.

Why should federal taxpayers subsidize car owners?

It's baffling how many U.S problems can be traced back to car-oriented development.

Here in Sweden, dedicated school buses are uncommon - getting to school is usually a matter of walking when young, and then using the common public transportation when older, or biking, or a mix of those two.

Here's how I got to school while growing up:

• Years 1 -6: school 0.4 km away, walked or biked
• Years 7-9: school 2 km away, biked or took the bus
• Years 10-12: school 9.1 km away, took the bus to school

Note that this was one of the most car-oriented cities in Sweden of about 100k people, meaning that this experience is probably unusually bad for Sweden.

Their attempt to maliciously comply is both against the spirit of the law - making it a violation in the EU regardless - and the letter of the law: the text mentions that they can't charge for this.

Time for a nice 10% of global revenues-fine. That'll do some good in the coffers of the EU.

Not exactly a stellar market to be looking in. Chances are that you'll be trading down, especially if you're in some level of big tech, like Discord arguably is.

Layoffs and firings hurt stock price

Quite the opposite, stock prices generally soar after layoffs.

The severance packages show up as a line item on the quarterly report though, so if you can have some people quit then that can also be a good thing in the eyes of the executives.

The whole thing leaves a bad taste in your mouth for sure.

I honestly think the "6 months of salary in an emergency fund"-advice is a bit overblown and certainly not universally applicable.

An emergency fund must per definition be very liquid in order to fulfill its purpose, hence you can only really place the money in a simple savings account with a not-so-spectacular interest rate. This means that the opportunity cost of having 6 months of salary in an emergency fund is the delta of expected return on investment in a higher-yield method of savings, such as placing the money in index funds. This can be quite significant, in particular since saving up 6 months of salary is not an easy task for the average person.

If you had the money placed in investments, the money would be less liquid, and there's the chance that you may have to liquidate it during a downturn, which would of course suck a little. Consider carefully under which scenarios you would have to liquidate, though:

• Lost your job? I have unemployment insurance to cover this scenario for me, meaning that I will get 80% of my current salary for close to a year, a period during which I would have to liquidate nothing.
• Disaster strikes my home? My home insurance policy covers this more than enough for me.
• Medical emergency? I'm lucky enough to live in a country where health care is free, but I have additional health insurance on top of that as well.
• Emergency while traveling? I have great travel insurance. They cover all medical expenses and would even fly me back home post-haste in disaster scenarios.
• Other accidents where I hurt myself? You guessed it, I have insurance for that too.

Now, there's an argument to be made that these insurance policies might be a bit slow to pay out, and that I might need to be a bit more liquid to cover the expenses temporarily. I have a solution for that too - credit cards. With credit cards I can make a short-term loan that should bridge over most issues until I can either get money from any of my insurance policies, or worst case have time to liquidate some of my higher-yield investments.

So yeah, that's my plan. It does not involve 6 months of salary being invested in a low-yield savings account, because that'd lose me a lot of money. I dislike the fact that the 6 months emergency fund is basically parroted as religious gospel, and it feels like people who repeat it have not thought about the issue thoroughly.

Welcome to the Swedish labour market. Companies have tried and failed before to resist union negotiations.

That's where you're wrong, bucko

For the curious, here's a really nice podcast episode on the subject: https://underunderstood.com/podcast/episode/closing-the-loop-on-chinas-mystery-seeds/

That's the intent - it's a layoff in disguise, with a discount on the severance package.

It's basically just a psyop by Charles Koch, trying to spread propaganda to land favourable policy changes for him and his kind.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cato_Institute

The absolute state of American urban planning. Jesus.

I feel like people are starting themselves blind on per-stream revenue in a bad way - no one is actually paying per stream. Not the customers, not the streaming companies, not the labels. This is the deal when it comes to streaming platforms - you get to listen to as much as you want for a fixed amount of money per month.

It's a little bit like saying someone who bought a CD in the 90s for $10 and listened to every song 100 times is a 10 times worse customer than someone who bought the same CD and listened to every song just 10 times. Yes, the person who listened to the CD 100 times paid 10 times less on a per-song listen basis, but that's quite simply not relevant.

The following chart should basically be the end of any argument on setting speed limits to 30 km/h:

I always got pretty worried when adults kept saying that school was the good times growing up, as I didn't have a particularly good time, and was not onboard for it being downhill from there.

Luckily I've learned that it's not actually universally applicable, my life has definitely just gotten better as I've gotten older.

1.8B was the fine they got for anticompetitive behaviour with regards to Apple Music, which is not an insignificant amount for that business unit.

The fines for DMA-violations go up to 10% of global revenue for first-time violations and 20% of global revenue for repeat violations. I would love to see Apple continue fucking around and letting Apple find out in the form of a fine of that magnitude. It would be so damn sweet.